Best Hard Words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.”

Giving Hard Asks Water Angel Charity Casts Bread Frightened Imposition Hard Words

Book:Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

Source: Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

“Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness of human ignorance without putting it to shame. These are the masters who instruct us without rods and ferules, without hard words and anger, without clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing; if you mistake them, they never grumble; if you are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you.”

Ifs Humans Book Hard Mistake Laughing Ignorance Masters Approach Clothes Shame Doctrine Ignorant Instruction Commodity Investigating Hard Words

Book:Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

Source: Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books

“All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.”

Should Made Hard Easy Letters Charm Discourse Hard Words

Author:Dorothy Osborne

“...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”

Thinking Men Hard Use Purpose Answers Hard Things Hard Words

Author:Herman Melville

“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.”

Men Hard Use Care Speak Language Company Fashion Aphorism Favourite Vulgar Vulgarity Usage Recourse Hard Words Best Company

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.”

Hard Secret Talent Ten Luck Cents Ninety Secret To Success Sucess Hard Words

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.”

People Thinking Mean Different Hard Reason Jobs Actors Causes Fame Different Things Different Peoples Hard Words

Author:Matt Smith

“Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.”

Giving Children Hard Games Attention Hard Times Hard Words

Author:E. B. White

“A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance.”

Hard Fall Rays Vengeance Hard Words

Author:Samael Aun Weor

“The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."”

Long Hard Damn Metaphysical Subtlety Degeneration Short Words Long Words Hard Words

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.”

Thinking Men Hard Language Communication English Language Hard Things Hard Words

Author:Herman Melville

“Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

Thinking Said Hard Today Speak Tomorrow Hard Words

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

Book Hard Reading Asks Grows Written Understood Sentences Complaining Suspects Wiser Obscure Deficiency Hard Words

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”

Knows Want Said Hard Night Sleep Love You Argument Useless Splendid Hard Words

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.”

Writing Children Hard Earth Games Reader Curious Sensitive Observant Hard Words

Author:E. B. White

“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.”

Needs Feels Writing Hard Seems Kids Stuff Realizing Safe Projects Smart Concepts Passionate Dishes Didactic Vapid Hard Words Smart Kid

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.”

Real Hard Firmness Hard Words

Book:Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

Source: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791

“Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words”

Hard Conclusion Boredom Temper Hard Words

Author:Bisco Hatori

“Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.”

Littles Hard Women Dog Baskets Fetch Hard Words

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.”

Hard Heaven Diversity Draws Kingdoms Mysticism Inward Disposition Ceremony Kingdom Of Heaven Rite Hard Words

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.”

Thinking Ideas Different Real Hard Use Normal Real Life Hard Words

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Hard words are for fools and cowards.”

Hard Fool Coward Hard Words

Author:Joe Abercrombie

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

“Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.”

Men Hard Chance Praise Hard Words

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.”

Heart Has Beens Hard Break Broken Bones Hard Words

Book:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839

“Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.”

Real Hard Use Class Style Reader Faults Imaginary Vocabulary Hard Words

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales